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Sacramento police: Man throws spear at passing car

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:01:04 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - Sacramento police say they have arrested a man who threw a spear at a moving car.

Legislature creates confusion over records bill

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:13:20 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - The Legislature's Democratic leaders on Wednesday pledged to address a budget bill that threatens public access to information held by local governments, but to do so in different ways.

Committee supports Brown's nominee to head prisons

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:31:07 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - A legislative committee recommended Wednesday that the Senate confirm Gov. Jerry Brown's choice to lead California's prison system.

Panel restores some pay for lawmakers, governor

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:04:43 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - California lawmakers will get a pay raise of nearly $5,000 this year while the governor will see an increase of nearly $9,000 after a citizens' panel voted Wednesday to restore some of the cuts it made during the recession.

Judge may expand Calif. prison mental health case

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:30:14 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - Attorneys who represent California inmates asked a federal judge Wednesday to expand the court's oversight of prison mental health care to include the Department of State Hospitals.

How to protect yourself from cyber-pickpockets

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:19:06 -0400

By CLAUDIA BUCK - It's a pernicious problem: Cyber-pickpockets continue stealing debit and credit card numbers from the computer systems of banks, businesses, restaurants and retailers. And we can unwittingly give out our financial data to crooks when shopping or chatting online. But there are ways you can protect yourself.

Girl says she was tortured while dad was in prison

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:55:40 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - A 14-year-old Northern California girl has told a jury that she was burned, brutalized and tortured by her father's fiancee while he was in prison.

Parolee arrested in firebombing of N. Calif. house

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:10:03 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - Sacramento County sheriff's officials say a 50-year-old parolee has been arrested after tossing a firebomb into a house.

Voisin: Pete D'Alesandro hiring ushers in new era...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:49:57 -0400

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - By AILENE VOISIN

Lawsuits filed against Calif.'s Delta Plan

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:35:14 -0400

FRESNO, California - Several opposing groups have filed lawsuits against a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that was adopted in May.

Pete D'Alessandro begins 'dream job' as Kings GM

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:34:19 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - Pete D'Alessandro has wanted a leading role in professional basketball since his father first took him to watch Julius Erving and the old New York Nets on Long Island in the 1970s.

Boy dies when delivery van overturns in Sacramento

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:08:18 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - A boy riding in a van that delivers newspapers to retail stores has been killed in an accident on a Sacramento freeway, and the California Highway Patrol thinks the van's driver was intoxicated.

Lawmakers expand Medicaid in final budget voting

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:45:23 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - The Legislature passed a major piece of the federal Affordable Care Act on Saturday, opting to expand Medicaid to 1.4 million low-income Californians, as it rushed to meet its deadline to complete a state budget.

Team source: Kings hire D'Alessandro as GM

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:23:31 -0400

The Sacramento Kings hired Denver executive Pete D'Alessandro as their new general manager on Saturday.

Climate talk shifts from curbing CO2 to adapting

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:46:59 -0400

WASHINGTON - Efforts to curb global warming have quietly shifted as greenhouse gases inexorably rise.

Calif. Legislature passes $96.3B Democratic budget

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:23:40 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - The Legislature passed California's massive state spending plan Friday amid sharp divisions over whether the compromise struck by Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown will further the state's recovery or eventually return it to the multibillion-dollar deficits common during the recession.

Otero called up from minors to help A's pitching

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:54:04 -0400

OAKLAND, California - The Oakland Athletics have purchased the contract of pitcher Dan Otero from Triple-A Sacramento on Friday and optioned left-hander Hideki Okajima to the minors.

Learn to be an effective 'squeaky wheel' with faulty...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:19:56 -0400

By CLAUDIA BUCK - Got a gripe? Whether it's a faulty cellphone, a cranky washing machine or a designer dress that falls apart, inevitably something goes wrong with something you've bought. What do you do?

Spinal-implant payments backed by Calif. lawmakers

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:18:18 -0400

By LAUREL ROSENHALL - Each year, thousands of Californians hurt themselves on the job and end up with back surgery -- small but expensive piece of the state's workers' compensation system. The vast majority of California workers with injured backbones wind up with spinal implants -- some 71 percent of them in 2010, research shows.

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Record $11M fine for illegal California gold mine

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:25:32 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - State regulators imposed a record $11 million fine Thursday on the operators of a renegade gold mine in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento.

Federal oversight board OKs Calif. high-speed rail

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:03:16 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - The California High-Speed Rail Authority won approval Thursday from a federal railroad oversight board to start construction this summer on the first leg of what would be the nation's first bullet train.

Sacramento diocese becomes latest to buy a funeral home

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:49:10 -0400

By JACK NEWSHAM - While Roman Catholic churches traditionally have maintained cemeteries, buying funeral homes and offering mortuary services is relatively new -- and controversial, the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento has discovered.

Brown plan gives big money to close education gap

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:19:54 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - California schools will receive an infusion of more than $3.6 billion in extra money this year, much of it targeted to the neediest students as part of a redistribution plan pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Nevada ACLU backing suit against 'patient dumping'

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:46:28 -0400

LAS VEGAS - A psychiatric patient has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in Nevada accusing state officials of giving him a one-way bus ticket to Northern California, where he arrived, scared and disoriented, without money and identification in a city where he didn't know anyone and had never been.